Protecting and Promoting the Evolving Maritime Heritage of the Tidal River Clyde

The Future of Govan Graving Docks

Govan Graving Docks

For several years CDPI has run a campaign to challenge proposals for a
major housing development on the graving docks and to build support for
the site to be restored as a maritime heritage park.

We have now handed our primary role in addressing the future of the docks
over to the Govan Docks Regeneration Trust charity. The Trust now aims
to take the strategic
objectives
of the campaign forward, with the local community and maritime/heritage
interest
communities,
to the stage of solidifying and delivering a shared vision for the future
of the iconic site.

This will free CDPI up to focus on our wider strategic objectives as a
research, networking and lobbying organisation concerned with the wider
dimension of maritime and heritage protection on the Clyde.

In addition new proposals have emerged from Jim McColl and Ferguson Marine
to bring Govan Graving Docks back into use as a working ship repair yard.
We fully support these proposals and have issued a press
release.

CDPI will continue to work with and support the Govan Docks Regeneration
Trust. Our broader research and development will continue to address the
graving docks and Govan Docks Regeneration Trust as a case study – enabling
that organisation to both feed into and directly benefit from our research.

CDPI’s core team will continue to lead the ongoing process as part
of a wider group of volunteers who form the board of Trustees of the Govan
Docks Regeneration Trust. However a dedicated charitable organisation for
the docks now provides a vehicle for more effective project management
and stakeholder engagement specific to the Govan Graving Docks.